Re: Two Articles about What Brits Know (or Don't)...

In article <cd0hq3lt3u4agmef711iptemkmgnobd61d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, mike weber
<fair****tfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 11:30:46 +0200, netcat
><netcat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>Knowing literature would tell you the origin of the term, but the 
>>meaning itself should be clear to anyone who's ever received ****-
>>related spam or stumbled onto a dirty website.
>
>My own favourite example of evidence that "Lolita" is a part of the
>cultural background is a Phil Foglio script for a "Plastic Man" comic:
>
>Someone is murdering designer-jean designers (all of whom are
>caricatures of real designers); one of the designers caricatured is
>"Melvin Klone", whose spokesmodel is teen actress Snookie Yields.
>
>Snookie Yields is represented by the firm of Humbert, Humbert, Humbert
>& Polanski.

The one-and-only-Google-hit for "Snookie Yields" (unless one includes
groups,
I suppose) disagrees with you on the writer of that story.

http://darkmark6.tripod.com/plastic_man_index.html

World's Finest Comics No. 273
November 1981
Story: [untitled] (8 pages)
Editor: Len Wein
Writer: Marty Pasko
Penciller: Joe Staton
Inker: Bob Smith
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Adrienne Roy
Feature Character: Plastic Man (last appearance in DC COMICS PRESENTS #39;
next
appears in CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #5)
Sup****ting Characters: Woozy Winks, NBI Chief Branner (last appearance for
both
in DC COMICS PRESENTS #39; last appearance for both)
Intro: Helmut Horsesache (dies before this story begins), Agent O'Nigma
(dies
in this story), Anne O'Rexia, Pete Ophelia, Gloria Jerrybuilt, Bobby Dwarf
(only appearance for all)
Cameo appearance: Sergio Demente (first appearance; dies before this story
begins)
Villains: Melvin Klone, Snookie Yields, Dr. Malcolm Feasance (first and
only
appearance for all)
Comment: Sometime after this story Plastic Man joins the heroes of Earth
in the
crusade against the Anti-Monitor in CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #5, then
teams
with Superman, Elastic Lad, and the Elongated Man against Malleable Man in
DC
COMICS PRESENTS #94, his last Earth-One appearance.
Synopsis: Plastic Man and Woozy must discover who is killing the
celebrated
(whether deserving or not) clothing designers of America.

[APW: I think the confusing "last appearance for both in DC COMICS
PRESENTS
#39; last appearance for both" text is intended to mean "Previous
appearance
for each in ..." and "final appearance for each".]

And on the Lolita front, I see one of the characters is "Pete Ophelia".

-- Alan